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Certifications

Certifications / Organic India

19 May 2023

2 minutes

Earlier, the IOAS had in March this year suspended the accreditation of Control Union (CU) India from testing and sampling of Indian organic textile products on charges of irregularities committed in its certification process.

IOAS Lifts Ban on Control Union (India)

The IOAS has lifted the ban on Control Union (CU) India for GOTS, Textile Exchange and ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation which it had imposed in March this year.

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Certifications / STep Standard

14 April 2023

2 minutes

All textile companies can be certified under STeP—fibre manufacturers, spinning mills, weaving mills, embroiderers, knitwear companies, finishing companies, manufacturers of ready-made clothes, foam and mattress manufacturers and technology logistics centres.

Oeko-Tex Reaches 1,000 Milestone for STeP Standard

Over 1,000 facilities around the world have been certified under the STeP (Sustainable Textile Production) standard of environmental certification specialist Oeko-Tex.

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Certifications / Banned Entities

4 April 2023

1 minute

Almost half the companies in the new Textile Exchange list are under indefinite bans.

Textile Exchange Updates List of Banned Certifiers; Most in Fresh List from China and Bangladesh

Updating its list of banned organisations, nonprofit Textile Exchange has said that the newly listed organisations may not be certified to any of its standards for the duration of the ban.

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Audit Fatigue / Industry Standards

14 February 2023

2 minutes

There are now 65 brands and retailers publicly committing to accept SLCP-verified data from their suppliers, and manufacturers are reporting concrete reduction of audits and reallocation of resources towards improvements.

SCI Issues Call for Convergence and Compatibility on Standards

Urging larger number of brands and retailers to hasten their switch to converged schemes, the Standard Convergence Initiative (SCI) has said that a lot more can be done to further reduce the burden on suppliers and manufacturers.

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Branding / Oeko-Tex

2 November 2022

2 minutes

For 30 years, Oeko-Tex has been offering standardised solutions that companies in the textile and leather industry can use to transparently and sustainably optimise their manufacturing processes. Based on scientific principles, OEKO-TEX contributes to bringing high-quality, safe and sustainable products onto the market. 21,000 manufacturers, brands and trading companies in more than 100 countries are currently working with OEKO-TEX.

Thirty Years On, Oeko-Tex Undertakes Rebranding Exercise

Thirty years after its inception, Oeko-Tex, the global certifier of textile and leather products and production, has assumed a new brand identity with a new logo.

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Going Organic / Certifications

16 September 2022

2 minutes

The Textile Exchange announcement remarked: "While we can require our own certification bodies to supply this data, we cannot extend this requirement to certification bodies operating in other schemes."

GOTS Tag Not Enough: Textile Exchange to Seek All Original Certification Data

Charges of greenwashing against some MNCs has pushed Textile Exchange to effect a policy change to its Organic Content Standard (OCS), making site inputs from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) mandatory in a bid to provide traceability of all transaction certificate data back to the original farm source and farm input.